• Night of Idiots was fourth today at Golden Gate Fields looking for her 2^nd win in a row. Sat a good trip, made a nice move on the turn to reach contention, and flattened out in deep stretch. The rail was not the best place to be but no real excuse. A little drop in class next time should get her back to the winner’s circle.
• Take a look at the attached photo of our beautiful yearling out of Exchanging Fire, broken and in training at T-Square stud in Ocala and doing super. We expect him to be an early, precocious two year old next year!

Yearling colt out of Exchanging Fire. Photo courtesy of Adam Parker.

• Rapstorerocks arrived safely at Palm Meadows this this morning, he looks absolutely fantastic as you can see from the attached photo taken by Kelly Breen just off the van outside his barn at Palm Meadows. He’s training really well and has a shot to be a nice horse purchased at a bargain price. Could run by end of the month at Gulfstream if he settles in well.

Rapstorerocks at Palm Meadows on December 5, 2019. Photo courtesy of Kelly Breen.

• Shake It Up Baby doing well and could run right around the end of December
• New Found Treasure good at Penn National out of her race, there’s a nice spot for her in about two weeks at Penn.
• Lisa Limon excellent at the farm in Kentucky, looking forward to a nice healthy baby in February. She will be bred to world-class racehorse Palace Malice (by Curlin) in 2020, one of the leading first-crop sires this year with 15 winners including a Breeder’s Cup winning two year old!

Finally, see excerpt below  from an article in this week’s TDN (Thoroughbred Daily News) about the state of California racing and purse money that speaks for itself, California Racing’s ‘Other’ Problem is Purses.

TDN excerpt